AI-proposed catalyst a 12-year expert called wrong becomes strongest clean-hydrogen lead, lasts 1,000+ hours
AndrewLBeam · x · 2026-09-25
Lila Sciences shares an AI-for-Science story: while working on clean-hydrogen catalysts, their AI proposed chemistry that a scientist who had studied the exact reaction for 12 years thought had to be wrong. That composition became the team's strongest lead, sustaining more than 1,000 hours of oxygen evolution with little catalyst loss. A blog post and preprint are available.
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